The massive demonstrations against the government continued across Iraq's provinces without diminishing. Many car bombs shook many different parts of Baghdad, killing and wounding over 150 people. The Intelligence Officer for the Ninawa Police was assassinated.
Nine car bombs exploded in various areas in the capital Baghdad, killing 28 people and injuring 124. Two car bombs in a popular market area in the northeast of Baghdad killed five people initially and wounded twenty-six others. Two car bombs in Sadr City, in the east of Baghdad, killed fifteen people from the initial blast and injured fifty-seven others. Another car bomb in the southwest of Baghdad killed and wounded eleven people.
Detainees in Tasfirat prison in Anbar launched hunger strikes in protest against being transferred to Nasiriyah prison, in Dhi Qar, south of the country.
Forces of the military detained five people in search-and-raid operations in Mosul, saying no more than that they were wanted on “charges of terrorism” and taking them away to an interrogation center.
Gunmen attacked a Property Office with silenced weapons in the south of Baghdad, killing two civilians on the spot. In the northwest of Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on a civilian in the city from their motorcycle, killing him.
Three bodies were found beaten to death in the east of Mosul, a man and two women from the same family, a day after their kidnapping. A woman in the southeast of Dohuk, a mother of six, shot and killed herself.
In the north of Mosul, Captain Muhammed Rakan, the Intelligence Officer for the Ninawa Police, was killed outside his house by gunmen driving by. Gunmen stormed the home of a police element in the south of Mosul and killed him.
Gunmen attacked a military checkpoint in the west of Mosul with silenced pistols, killing two of its soldiers.